Back down to earth

As climate-change scrutiny shifts from homes and cars to aeroplanes, airline companies are fastening their seatbelts for a bumpy ride. A survey conducted in May suggested that 47 per cent of people in Britain had already cut down on short-haul flying as a result of climate change.

Along with other aviation-badgering groups, such as AirportWatch, Spurt and enoughsenough.org, Plane Stupid is on a mission to push this figure higher. Next month, Camp for Climate Action, an annual gathering of hundreds of environmental campaigners from disparate groups, will take Plane Stupid’s lead and spend eight days campaigning at Heathrow, somewhere they say is responsible for 31m tonnes of carbon emissions a year – more than many countries, including Peru, Cuba and Croatia.

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